Brent Chapman lost his vision at 13 years old after experiencing a rare allergic reaction Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared ...

Sudden blindness striking days after a routine tooth pull feels like a nightmare no one sees coming. This real case, handled by vitreoretinal specialist Dr. Ashish Markan, involved a diabetic woman ...

Doctors in Florida restore a woman's sight by implanting a tooth in her eye. Sept. 17, 2009— -- Forget about an eye for an eye -- doctors in Florida have taken a blind woman's tooth, and used it ...

Brent Chapman can see again after doctors pulled out one of his teeth, flattened it, drilled a hole in it, placed a lens inside and implanted the tooth in one of his eyes. It seems bizarre, but the ...

Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like. Brent Chapman can see again after ...